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PS: If you have a problem with the workflow, do not spend time reading the forum post, the workflow has been rewritten many times! Follow instructions from here http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/articles/support/ instead

This is a simple workflow for controlling Google Play Music playback/search in Chrome. It is updated for the version of the web-based music player that was released ~May 2015.
The workflow uses the following keywords to control playback in an open Google Play tab:
'gpp': Play/Pause
'gp prev': Previous Song
'gp next': Next Song
'gp search <search term>': Search Music for <search term>
Github Repo: http://bit.ly/1ILnjFZ
Download: http://bit.ly/1cOMM3y

Because I found no Deezer workflow for Alfred I've created one in Go: https://github.com/snipem/alfred-deezer
There should be no dependencies besides deezer-cli (which is included) and the yet not published soundstage client I've created to directly play Deezer tracks and albums on my Bose Soundtouch.
Due to the nature of Go all dependencies should be satisfied already.
Alfred-Deezer searches for tracks (Keyword: h) and albums (da).
Download
See Releases.
Setup for Development
See deezer-cli on how to setup deezer-cli which is included to the workflow.

Whenever I select a track to play in the Mini Player, iTunes launches and plays the track. Is that how it's supposed to be, and if not, how can I stop it happening? This happens when I open Mini Player and press enter when a track is selected, or click on Mini Player's play icon.

Alfred MPD
Control MPD from Alfred.
Installation
Download the latest version from GitHub releases or Packal.
Usage
mpd [<query>] — View mpd status and search for tracks
On actions:
↩ or ⌘+<NUM> — Perform action
On tracks:
↩ or ⌘+<NUM> — Queue track
⌘+↩ — Play track
⌥+↩ — Clear queue and play track
^+↩ — Queue album
On albums/artists/playlists/types:
↩, ⇥ or ⌘+<NUM> — Search within albums/artists/playlists/types
Licencing, thanks
This workflow is released under the MIT licence.
It is based on the Alfred-Workflow library, which is also released under the MIT licence.
Changelog
0.1.0
First release

Hi all,
I've been getting lots of requests to update this workflow to make it compatible with Ruby >=2.0 which is what's been shipping with the past couple releases of macOS. Well, I took some time this week to finally do it and also added a few new features.
Results will now show their album art, and the pairing process has been improved. You can also now search by artist name and album title. I've also renamed the workflow to iTunes DJ (reminiscent of the original queuing feature in iTunes).
See the README on Github for more info and download links.
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ORIGINAL POST
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Hey Guys!
Up Next is one of my favorite features of iTunes 11, but adding songs to it can be pretty tedious. That's what this workflow tries to fix.
You can search for songs right in Alfred and quickly queue them to be played in iTunes!
The source is available on Github. Feel free to fork it and submit pull requests.
Here's a download of the workflow that you can import directly into Alfred.
This workflow works similarly to the iOS Remote app. Because of this, it needs to be paired with iTunes before you can use it. To do that just follow these instructions:
iTunes must be open to complete the pairing process.
Invoke Alfred and type pair followed by a 4-digit numeric pin number and hit enter.
Switch to iTunes and click the devices button in the top right.
Then click on Alfred in the devices list and enter your 4-digit pin.
Now you're all set to start queuing songs! Just type "next" followed by the name of a song and Alfred will search as you type. Then just hit enter on the song you'd like to queue.
Enjoy!
Known Issues:
Searching can be slow for large libraries
Can only search using song titles, not artists or albums

Enter the keyword vlcr followed by ...
- play or pause to toggle between playback and pause
- stop to exit out of playback and show the playlist
- next to go to the next chapter or file
- prev or previous to go to the previous chapter or file
- fullscreen to toggle between fullscreen and windowed
- downloads to load all content of your user's Downloads folder into VLC's playlist
- volup to increase the volume by one increment (of 32)
- voldown to decrease the volume by one increment (of 32)
- volmax to put VLC's volume at its maximum level (use with care)
- mute to toggle mute
- delayup to increase audio delay by 50ms
- delaydown to decrease audio delay by 50ms
- subs to toggle through the available subtitles
- quit to quit VLC
Download: https://github.com/geberl/alfred-vlc-remote
Packal: TBA

I was hoping to find a playback controller for the Sonos desktop app but only found Jeff Johns's "Sonos Sound Controls" workflow, which unfortunately only offered volume control hotkeys.
I tend to do a lot of playback control using keywords, so I set some up for Alfred. I'm an AppleScript noob, and Sonos doesn't really support AppleScript, so this was kind of a pain, and pretty hacky. There were some useful posts from 2008, but otherwise, I was kind of stabbing in the dark.
Download here.
There's support for the following commands using the 'sonos' keyword: search, play/pause, next track, previous track, volume up/down, and mute.
Feedback and suggestions welcomed.

Download
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4265900/Alfred/Mute.alfredworkflow
This workflow mutes the system volume with the Keyword mute, meaning that all sound coming from the computer is stopped. Typing mute again will re-enable sound. It's pretty simple, but effective:
Remember to disable the iTunes mute Keyword, if previously enabled: Preferences > Features > iTunes > Keywords > Mute iTunes
If you want a finer degree of control, you could also rig it to work in conjunction with the iTunes mute Keyword if this workflow's Keyword is changed to something different, say "muteall".
Dependencies
None
Download
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4265900/Alfred/Mute.alfredworkflow

See what's currently playing on BBC Radio 6music.
Also displays how long ago the song started/finished.
Uses a BBC JSON feed.
keyword: 6music
hotkey: F16
What’s on 6music.alfredworkflow
Requires latest Growl.

Hi all,
First post, longtime amateur Alfred user.
I want to create two specific related workflows with a rudimentary knowledge of code. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Here is workflow #1:
Search YouTube for {query} -> copy first URL in YouTube search results (or select from Alfred list of results) -> paste into iSkysoft and begin download of MP3 via iSkysoft
Here is workflow #2:
Take selected or searched MP3 on HD and transpose it up or down the desired amount of semitones in Audacity via {query}
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Do these make sense? Are they even possible?
Thank you!
Josh

I use the mini-player fairly frequently and would love to see it updated to include a button to "Love" a track (heart icon). This is a standard feature of iTunes now and other 3rd party controllers are including it, so seeing that ability in Alfred would be great.

I made a very small Workflow with AppleScript.
You can trigger it with the word "lyric" or by using the shortcut "alt + shift + L".
It opens Large Type and shows the lyric of the currently playing song in iTunes.
!!!Notice: It does not download any lyrics from the Internet, it just uses the lyrics you added to your songs in iTunes before (so you do not need an Internet connection).
There are lots of tools, that add lyrics to all of your songs in iTunes in minutes (e.g. MassiveLyrics: http://www.creamdesign.it/massivelyrics-get-all-the-lyrics-for-your-itunes-library/)
If you have any problems or suggestions to make it better, please let me know.
Download via Dropbox

I realize there are other Lyric Lookup workflows, but I wanted one that jumped directly to the lyrics page, assuming that song was tagged properly. So, I used LyricWiki’s format of artist:song name to at first make one where I type that in, but then decided to make an applescript to autofill that. It’s an early rev, but hitting ^L will lookup the lyrics to the currently playing song. If no song is playing, then it will lookup the lyrics for the selected song. shift-^L will also lookup lyrics for the selected song. It’s rough and very raw and could probably be done better, but assuming your artist:song name matches, you can look it up. I also pastes that format to the clipboard in case the song name doesn’t match exactly, then you can type “lyrics” and paste them in to edit it. It works pretty well so far, I only wish I could scrape the class “lyricbox” to copy the lyrics and open iTunes lyric tab to allow me to paste them in, but perhaps in another rev? It is available here:
http://blog.noivad.net/2015/06/28/quick-lyric-lookup-for-alfred-powerpack-users/
Sorry for the roughness of this, and I am too new to this forum to figure out how to upload? (such a noob here) I’ll have to look into that later, but for now I’ll just share it the only way I know how vs. holding it up cause I’ve already added lyrics to about 100 tracks since I made this a few days ago in a lot less time than it usually takes!

Hi. I use BeotsMusic, which is essentially a non-official client for Beats Music. It supports full media keys, meaning function+f8 plays/pauses, function+f9 skips the song, etc. I got Alfred Remote mostly for it's ability to control music (and also to support Alfred, instead of using the ordinary remote app.) However, the media control buttons on Alfred Remote apply strictly to iTunes. How can I simply simulate a keypress (function+f9) or something similar? Thanks!

This is a very simple workflow that searches Ultimate Guitar for a guitar tab of the song currently playing in iTunes.
Use it by simply typing "tabs" in Alfred which will automatically open Safari and display available tabs.
Enjoy and keep on rockin'!
Get it here: http://gum.co/tabs
I am working on improving this extension and making it a lot more powerful! New version coming soon... Your support is much appreciated
Also check out a similar extension for lyrics: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1633-itunes-lyrics-search/

I'm sorry this post is quite wordy. Feel free to skip to the summary of my suggestion at the bottom. Please post if you would also like to see these features.
In the iTunes Miniplayer, you can select songs by an album, artist, genre or playlist.
When you select an album, you can choose a specific song from that album and play it. Thereafter, the rest of the album will play. Great. I love the behaviour of the Miniplayer in this case.
But what if I want to choose an item from a playlist and then listen to the rest of the playlist? Then I have to select a playlist and hit "Next Song" until I get to the one I want. This can be irritating for large playlists. Further, the Miniplayer behaves similarly if I want to play all the songs by one artist or from one genre.
A solution for this problem would be the following behaviour:
Let's say I have a playlist called "Top Songs".
I open the Miniplayer → I begin to type "Top Songs → "Top Songs" appears in the menu → I select "Top Songs" → A list of the songs in the "Top Songs" playlist appears
At this point, we encounter a different problem. Let's say "Top Songs" contains 1000 songs. It is unreasonable to scroll through the a list of 1000 songs in the Miniplayer to select the one you want. So, you type in the name of the song and press enter. Unfortunately, the Miniplayer's current behaviour leads to the creation of a temporary playlist that contains only that songs. So, the other songs in your playlist will never get played.
I would propose that this behaviour should be changed so that the temporary playlist contains all songs in the playlist (or genre/artist/album) you are searching within and that it begins playing that playlist with the selected song.
Alternatively, if a person does not want this behaviour, the Miniplayer's could be made to resemble that of Alfred's file navigator. Pressing enter on a playlist would play it and pressing the right arrow key would access a list of the songs within it. The same behaviours listed here can also be applied to playing "All songs in genre" or "All songs by artist".
In summary:
I would propose that the complete final behaviour would be as follows.
I open the Miniplayer → I begin to type "Top Songs → "Top Songs" appears in the menu → I select "Top Songs" → A list of the songs in the "Top Songs" playlist appears → I begin to type the name of a song → That song appears in the menu → I select that song → That song plays → The rest of the "Top Songs" playlist plays thereafter

Hi! I often listen to some random playlists on Spotify and when I hear a good song, I want to know its name. Getting tired of having to Cmd+Tab to Spotify I decided to write this workflow which simply shows the song currently playing. You can also show it in large type or copy to clipboard.
Type np to activate the workflow. Cmd + Enter copies to clipboard and Alt + Enter shows large type.
Download

I made this simple workflow to search some lyrics on LaCuerda.net.
The only think you have to do is write lr and after that the song's name or the artist's name.
Download here: https://github.com/marionava/Alfred-Workflow---LaCuerda.net/blob/master/LaCuerda.net%20Search.alfredworkflow?raw=true

How can I play a specific song in a specific playlist with the iTunes Mini Player? (I've got the Power Pack and bought Alfred specifically for the iTunes feature, but so far it seems to be lacking in some areas.)
For instance, in Quicksilver, I can choose a playlist, then play a specific song in the playlist. I'd like to do the same in Alfred; how can I achieve that?
At the moment, when I choose a playlist, the playlist will play without letting me choose a song. I know I can type in a song afterward, but it just creates a new temporary playlist for Alfred to play that one song. But I want to stay in that playlist.

There is currently no functionality to play all the tracks in a given genre, from the mini player.
Also, maybe a Composers category & search feature could be added, with similar functionality to that of Artists?

Search vevo.com for music videos and watch them in your browser.
Website and download: https://github.com/cdraeger/alfred2-vevo-workflow
Direct download: https://github.com/cdraeger/alfred2-vevo-workflow/blob/master/export/vevo.alfredworkflow?raw=true
Changelog
v1.1:
Arguments are now optional. If you don't enter any search term you will see a list of current video premieres.
Some refactoring and bug fixes.
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I wanted to be able to search quickly for music videos directly in Alfred. Of course, vevo.com has to be accessible in your country. I have no idea what happens if not (let me know).
This workflow has probably still some potential, I'm planning on improving it whenever I have time and ideas. But for now it works. I'm ordering the results by most viewed all time (descending), which puts the most popular videos on top. You can read the rest on Github.
Feel free to let me know what you think! If you experience any bugs I'd appreciate if you report them.

Hi,
is it possible to implement automatic scoring/rating of music based on e.g. playcount, track skipping behavior etc. like done in amarok/ clementine? That would be a really nice feature though.
How is the alfred itunes library organized internally?
Thanks,
Matthias